234997 - spellchecker dialog should not be modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193441

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Søren Thing Pedersen]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When I spellcheck mails I often find misspelled words for which the spellchecker
doesn't have a correct suggestion. In these cases I would like to edit the word
directly without closing the spellcheck dialog. This is a common behavior in
word processors.

As of now (1.6) the spellchecker dialog locks you away from editing the mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose new message
2. Write something in the new message
3. Start spellcheck
4. Click on the message your a spellchecking
Actual Results:  
You should experience that the window focus is locked to the spellchecker dialog.

Expected Results:  
Focus should be on the message with all abilities to edit an so forth. Meanwhile
the spellchecker dialog should still be on top but unfocused.

Comment 1

[Jay Smith]

I agree 101%.  This is really annoying.

Jay Smith

Comment 2

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193441 ***